Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY
GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,294,971 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($684,805). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Girls Inc of the Valley does
Mission
See schedule ogirls inc. Of the valley helps transform the lives of girls. Intentionally structured to meet the specific needs of girls, our wide range of programs offer opportunities for girls to increase their capacity for resiliency, foster community involvement, strengthen their capabilities as critical thinkers and inspire lifelong learning. Our programs are girl-centered, community focused, and age-appropriate.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Elementary school programs (esp): girls inc.'s programs for girls ages 5-12 are offered at 480 hampden street in holyoke, and through school partnerships in holyoke, springfield, and chicopee. Our programs provide rich educational experiences that help girls reach developmental milestones and succeed in school. While the programs have an academic focus, there is a strong emphasis on social emotional learning as well, building a supportive community of confident, directed girls. Program staff also offered a variety of remote/virtual experiences for participants.
$366,142 spent27% of program spendingMiddle and high school programs (mhsp): girls inc. Serves girls ages 12-18 at our teen center in holyoke, and through school partnerships in holyoke, springfield, and chicopee. We provide educational and leadership opportunities through 4 interconnected components: 1) integrative education, combining academic support, and financial and stem literacy; 2) healthy sexuality; 3) college access; and 4)leadership development. We also offer eureka! A 5-year stem education program in partnership with the university of massachusetts.
$968,746 spent73% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,334,888.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $4.6M to $6.7M (+46%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 37% · 2018 26% · 2020 16% · 2021 32% · 2022 28% · 2023 31% · 2024 54% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Suzanne Parker
Executive director
Board chair
Debra Vega
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $176k → $1.6M.
12 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $765k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Girls Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY raised.
From the IRS filings of GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
43% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 48% · 2019 33% · 2020 18% · 2021 29% · 2022 18% · 2023 32% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
54% of GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
73% of GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.9M on record — $3.0M federal, $3.9M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.0M
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$2.2M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$1.6M
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$55k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY?
- GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,294,971 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($684,805). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $4,294,971 in grants to GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $684,805 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 60 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing